The Innovation Report
Microsoft Will Try To Fix Bing AI’s Errors and Bizarre Chats
Just over a week after launching its AI-powered Bing search engine, Microsoft is working to fix problems with factual errors and weird conversations stemming from the ChatGPT-related technology that's under the hood. In a blog...
Robot Eel Could Be Start Of New Breed Of ‘Voxel’ Robots
Way back in 1994, engineers at MIT unveiled Robotuna. Inspired by the 160 million-year-old species, the aptly named, four-foot-long submersible robot required over 2,800 components, including 40 ribs, tendons, a vertebrae-like backbone, and even a Lycra covering...
White House: Tesla To Open Part Of EV Charging Network To Other Drivers
Tesla will open a portion of its electric vehicle charging stations to drivers of other vehicles by the end of next year, the White House said Wednesday in announcing details of its plans to build a national EV charging network. Tesla will make at least 7,500...
The EV Transition In Historical Comparison
Advocates for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are enthused about the potential for them to displace most internal combustion energy (ICE) vehicles within a decade or two. The figure below shows a number of projections of BEV market share for new vehicle sales from a...
Hot, New Electric Cars That Are Coming Soon
The ongoing business impact of the coronavirus pandemic has slowed auto development and production, but manufacturers’ plans to introduce electric vehicles (EVs) continue unabated. In fact, dozens of pure electric models are set to debut by the end of 2024. On the...
Blasting Moon Dust Into Space Could Help Cool Earth
The longest-reigning monarch in France's history, Louis XIV, earned the sobriquet le Roi Soleil or "the Sun King" because of, surprisingly, his love for ballet. It had nothing to do with the star at the center of our solar system. But weirdly enough, during...
Ericsson Gets Involved In New 6G Initiative
Ericsson has joined forces with Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology and eight other partners to solve what it says is one of the key challenges of future 6G networks: Predictable end-to-end connections between users, processes and “digital representations in...
Fury In Ukraine As Elon Musk’s Spacex Limits Starlink Use For Drones
A senior Ukrainian presidential aide has reacted with anger after Elon Musk’s SpaceX said it had taken steps to prevent its Starlink satellite communications service from controlling drones, which are critical to Kyiv’s forces in fighting off the Russian invasion....
AI Has Successfully Imitated Human Evolution—And Might Do It Even Better
A language model AI created proteins as good as ones honed over a million years of evolution. Salesforce’s ProGen designed sequences based on the “sentences” of biological proteins. Scientists are investigating whether the AI could identify...
Melting Robots Are the Future, Accept It
If life as a kid in the 1980s and ’90s taught me anything, it’s that the rise of our machine overlords is a certainty. A new study shows remarkable progress being made in this area, with the development of a hyper-flexible multi-state material that is pretty...
